Hey 👋 This week Meta released a new AI assistant powered by Llama 4 that uses your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp data to give more personalized responses. With nearly 1 billion people already using Meta AI each month across its apps, Meta is a strong contender in the AI consumer market competing with ChatGPT and Google Gemini — that is, if users are willing to share their social media data with AI. OpenAI had to remove their latest GPT-4o update because users found the AI was being too...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 This week, OpenAI made its new image model available for developers “gpt-image-1”, unlocking thousands of exciting startup use cases. Big names like Adobe, Figma, and others have already integrated it into their offerings, and we’re expecting a wave of new apps to build on top of these image generation capabilities. Elon Musk’s xAI also made moves: the Grok 3 family of models is now available via API, priced competitively compared to other reasoning models. On top of that, the Grok...
20 days ago • 5 min read
Hey 👋 This week was all about new model releases. Google introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash, a budget-friendly alternative to its flagship model, while OpenAI unveiled three significant updates: o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1. After initial testing, we're especially excited about o3, which is giving us serious "AGI vibes." It doesn't just utilize tools—it orchestrates them, demonstrating remarkable creativity, strategic thinking, and adaptability. It genuinely feels like we've taken a meaningful step...
24 days ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 This week, tech giants Microsoft and Google flexed their AI muscles in the battle for corporate attention, releasing several new AI tools and features. Microsoft announced the next generation of Copilot, featuring Copilot Vision, Agentic Actions, AI-Powered Podcast, and more, while Google countered at its Next Conference with Firebase Studio, major updates to Google Workspace, a new AI chip, and much more. Another major headline this week was Meta's release of the Llama 4 family of...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hey 👋 This week has been extraordinary in many ways — with new U.S. tariffs escalating geopolitical tensions and triggering the stock market's worst days since 2020. In contrast, the world of AI was relatively quiet. The biggest headline came from OpenAI, which raised $40B at a $300B valuation — the largest private funding deal in AI to date. The company also announced plans to open-source a new model, its first since 2019. But that wasn't the only AI news this week. Let's jump in! AI Pulse 🚨...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey 👋 This week, OpenAI practically broke the internet with its new image generation capabilities—turning simple prompts into insane photos, illustrations, and pixel-perfect designs. But what really blew people away was the model’s near-perfect text output (see examples). Another major headline: the launch of Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, now widely considered the best large language model—period. It tops most benchmarks and is being called "an absolute beast" by those who've put it to work. The AI...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 This week's main story was the Nvidia GTC conference where Jensen Huang revealed the Blackwell Ultra GB300 AI chip shipping this year, Vera Rubin (coming 2026), personal AI supercomputers (DGX Spark and DGX Station), and GR00T N1, an open-source humanoid robot foundation model (and more..). "AI is becoming the most valuable asset we have—it can be applied to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems.” - Jensen Huang Another story that caught a lot of attention was a new study...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 This week, OpenAI launched its Responses API and Agents SDK that brings together web search, Deep Research, and Operator capabilities to make it easier for developers to build their agentic apps. Chinese Manus “went viral” with its autonomous agent platform, and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the “USB for AI” — generated a lot of buzz as builders have started discovering use cases to make AI agents more powerful in interacting with external tools and APIs. Anthropic CEO...
2 months ago • 3 min read
March 07, 2025 Hey 👋 With the release of ChatGPT-4.5 and new voice models like Sesame, Grok-3 Voice, and Gemini Voice with endless memory, AI is starting to achieve a level of emotional intelligence and nuance that blurs the line between human and artificial interaction. Alan Turing's famous question, "Can machines think?" is shifting to, "Can we tell machines apart from humans?" Today's voice-enabled AI doesn't just mimic language—it empathizes, remembers, and responds with a level of...
2 months ago • 4 min read